Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fulminating affliction of the food, drug & insecticide administration of the Department of Agriculture, the "scandal" of ergot, came up again last week. Walter Gilbert Campbell, director of the department's regulatory work took it before the Senate Committee on Agriculture & Forestry. He wished to clear the administration of Dr. Henry Kurd Rusby's long repeated charges that it was willfully permitting the importation of rotten ergot, fluid extract of which (says Dr. Rusby) is killing large numbers of women in childbirth (TIME, April...
...that Spanish ergot is commercially better than Russian ergot because more fluid extract can be made from a given amount, 2) that Russian ergot can be and is being made into safe fluid extracts which satisfy the high standard of the U. S. pharmacopoeia, 3) that the ergot "scandal," apart from Dean Rusby's idealistic intervention, is nothing but a commercial fight, nothing at which citizens need take alarm...
...scenes were packed with bed testing, summer hotel scandal and other romantic biology. As in previous Gaieties, current people and events were treated with all due disrespect...
...scandal of all Austria-Hungary, Franz Ferdinand married his Sophie. Later they were assassinated together at Serajevo. Whispers have it that implacable Archduchess Isabella's comment on the crime which started the World War was: "It served them right...
...from a verdict of 6? damages against the New York Herald Tribune.†He had sued for a compensatory $100,000. In 1926 the Herald Tribune published a story stating that one William Kehoe, onetime Manhattan corporation counsel and city official who had been convicted in a milk graft scandal (TIME, July 26, 1926), had purchased an estate at Garrison, N. Y. Two days later William Kehoe informed the Herald Tribune he had made no such purchase. The newspaper sought the true purchaser, found him five days afterward to be William H. Kehoe, an assistant corporation counsel...